Rome And The Colonial City

Author : Sofia Greaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789257824
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome and the Colonial City written by Sofia Greaves and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.

Author : Andrea De Giorgi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0472131540
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (Third and Second Centuries BCE) written by Andrea De Giorgi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes evidence of the rising hegemony that became Rome

Author : Amanda Jo Coles
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438343
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Colonies in Republic and Empire written by Amanda Jo Coles and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Republican and Imperial colonies were established by diverse agents reacting to contemporary problems. By removing anachronistic interpretations, Roman colonies cease to seem like ‘little Romes’ and demonstrate a complex role in the spread of Roman imperialism and culture.

Author : Marcello Mogetta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845681
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture written by Marcello Mogetta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the innovation and transfer of the building technology at the root of ancient Rome's architectural revolution.

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968707
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Cities written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca J. Sweetman
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842179741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation written by Rebecca J. Sweetman and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the nature of cultural change in the Roman Empire has traditionally been divided between the Western and Eastern provinces. Papers in this volume aim to reunite the provinces by approaching the question of cultural change across the Empire through a range of material culture and historical sources focusing on the first 100 years of the foundation of a colony.

Author : Andrew Lees
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199859523
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City written by Andrew Lees and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, European cities entered into a long period of waning and deterioration. But elsewhere, great cities-among them, Constantinople, Baghdad, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlán-thrived. In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, urban growth resumed in Europe, giving rise to cities like Florence, Paris, and London. This urban growth also accelerated in parts of the world that came under European control, such as Philadelphia in the nascent United States. As the Industrial Revolution swept through in the nineteenth century, cities grew rapidly. Their expansion resulted in a slew of social problems and political disruptions, but it was accompanied by impressive measures designed to improve urban life. Meanwhile, colonial cities bore the imprint of European imperialism. Finally, the book turns to the years since 1914, guided by a few themes: the impact of war and revolution; urban reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many cities in the United States into growing suburbs; and the explosive growth of "megacities" in the developing world.

Author : Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198356
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient City written by Arjan Zuiderhoek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.

Author : Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069181
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife of the Roman City written by Hendrik W. Dey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Author : F. HAVERFIELD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ANCIENT TOWN-PLANNING written by F. HAVERFIELD and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: